"Literature Review\r\nTopic: Assessing the Effectiveness of Home Composting of Organic Waste in South Australia.\r\nIntroduction\r\n Analysis of the Avoid-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle approach to organic waste management (mention Zero Waste SA.)\r\nConclusion \r\n\r\nRunning head: LITERATUREREVIEWLITERATURE REVIEWStudent NameInstitution of Afffiliation1 Running head: LITERATUREREVIEWTopic: Assessing the Effectiveness of Home Composting of Organic Waste in South Australia.Analysis of the Avoid-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle approach to organic waste management (mention ZeroWaste SA.)IntroductionAccording to Li, 2015 waste Management is also known as waste disposal includes all the actionsand activates that is required to manage waste from its origin to final disposal. It involves the entireprocess of transport, treatment, disposal and collection of waste together with the regulation andmonitoring. It does also encompass the regulatory framework and the legal channels that are concernedwith waste management including guidance on issues such as the recycling programs. HomeComposting encompasses the process of turning homemade Organic Waste into Compost for purpose ofusing in farms as manure. Avoid-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle approach is the new method that encompassesfour key areas that are used to tackle the menace of organic waste management. Its intention is toreduce the general amount of organic waste that is produced in a certain locality. Avoiding organic wasteThe avoid part of the approach vouched for the consumers to look for alternatives to consumption oforganic products. In this case, the user is thus advised to look for other ways of achieving their desiredgoals by replacing the organic products with products ones that are durable and hence can be used overand over again. However, this part of the approach can end up the encouraging use of inorganicproducts like plastic and other polyethylene materials that are not biodegradable and hence end uppolluting the environment even more due to lack of proper disposal mechanisms (Yetskalo, 2014). Thisis actually a great problem in many third world countries. 2 Running head: LITERATUREREVIEWReducing the use of organic waste This forms the top most part of the waste reduction hierarchy. It is the most effective way of controllingwaste, as the most important part in waste management is actually not producing the waste. Thissection of the approach involves encouraging consumers to decrease the number of organic productsthey consume. This can be accomplished by just enough amount of food we need both at home and inplaces that sell food like hotels. Instead of dumping food, this establishment is encouraged to donatetheir excess food to charity organization and the poor before they expire. These activities help reducethe amount of organic waste generated from home and food establishments like supermarkets andhotels. Laws can be passed that offer incentive to this establishment to encourage them to reduce theamount of organic waste produced throughout the entire food chain. This can be in the form of taxincentives such as that in Italy or making banning them from disposing of unsold food as in France.Various apps have been created to encourage people to reduce the amount of food wastage such asspoiler alert and food keeper. All these initiatives ultimately aim to reduce the amount of organic wasteproduced. However, it is difficult to regulate a number of organic substances individuals consume andhence produce due to the fact that each person has his own individual needs. Similarly, thought out theprocess of producing a certain product, there is the production of waste at every stage, reducing theamount of waste produced at each of this stage is desirable (Campuzano, 2016).Reuse of organic waste Reuse can be defined as the process of utilizing a waste product without further changing the shape orthe original nature of the product. It actually forms the second level from the top of the wastemanagement hierarchy. There is organic waste that a can be used over and over again due to theirdurability. Different types of organic waste can be reused such as old furniture can be sold, old clothes3 Running head: LITERATUREREVIEWcan be given to charity, and reusable menstrual pads, adult reusable diapers and shopping bags made ofclothes and ant organic thing that can be used again for the same purpose for which it was intended.Reuse actually mean that less of the organic waste will be produced. It has the benefit of taking productsthat have been discarded by those who no longer need them and giving it to those who need (Li, 2015).Recycle of organic waste Recycling waste implies that the organic waste material is reprocessed before being made into newproducts. The act of reprocessing itself can have a negative impact on the environment and people'shealth through these impacts are normally lower that the benefit to be derived from making the producta new from the raw material. Recycling is of benefit to the environment but it is important for one tohave a market for the end products, however, the entire project becomes economically non-viable. Allthe recycling options depend on the type of organic raw waste materials. For instance, waste paper isusually broken down to a pulp which is the cleaned and made to form new paper that can be used tomake newspapers and printing materials. All organic waste can be recycled through the process ofcomposition that can be done in large-scale establishments and homes (Yetskalo,2014). . It is normallythe third tier of the hierarchy.ConclusionThe avoid-Reduce-Reuse-Recycle approach is now an established method of solid waste management.Each part of the approach has a role to play in the entire process. They are not mutually exclusive ratherthey operate in tandem to achieve the overall goal. The approach will be more effective if combinedwith other method such as education of the public etc.4 "